LibraryThing Review. User Review - P_S_Patrick - LibraryThing. Konrad Lorenz was a pioneer of the study of animal behaviour, and received the Nobel prize in. The sins are eight instances of wrong turns, ill-advised cultural choices which set our species on a course of development at odds with the rest of nature. Book Reviews: Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins. By Konrad Lorenz. Trans. Marjorie Kerr Wilson. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book. New York: Harcourt Brace.